Illustrations use pictures to express vividness, life and appeal. The main difference from graphic design can be simply understood as "illustration highlights the story rather than attracting attention". Illustration is also an artistic form of visual expression, which mainly includes photography/painting/three-dimensional illustration. Illustration has a special position in the art field and is closely related to the publishing industry. Both e-books and physical books are needed, and there are also employment opportunities in other fields, such as music/movies/media.
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Common tools for illustration:
1. Hand-painted illustrations are drawn with paper and pen-common tools: marker, colored lead and watercolor.
2, mouse illustration-common tools: PS, AI, etc.
3, board drawing illustration-common equipment: hand-drawn board, digital screen, ipad, mobile phone.
4. the hand-drawn board needs to be connected to a computer to draw pictures in PS, AI and SAI. Digital screens and ipad can draw directly without connecting a computer. The mobile phone needs to be painted by capacitance pen.
The basic standard of learning illustration is whether there is an audition class or not.
There are indeed many places to learn illustration now, and it is really a mixture of good and evil people, which makes many students spend their eyes. How should they choose? There is a good saying, to judge how a learning place is, at least we should first look at each other's strength, and the audition class is to look at each other's best strength, but also at the quality of the course. If even the audition class is not good, then other classes are even more useless. And choose to learn this piece, choose a big school, and have security.
If you don't know where to find it, you can go to the online class I took before. That's where I study. Every night at 8: 00, there will be a free online course of illustration and board painting by the master painter. The teacher's speech is easy to understand, humorous and witty, and can explain the painting skills that plague everyone simply and thoroughly. Watching a teacher's video is much better than reading a book. A class can solve many problems for you and understand the development of the whole industry. It's free anyway. You can listen to it. Giving lectures at night will not delay your work or study during the day. Students who want to listen can enter Weixin (homophonic):
The first group is: gon _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen _ Wen. Remarks: Illustration.
Since students like to learn board drawing illustrations, it is irresponsible to try and give themselves a chance. Only by trying can they know if they are the right material, instead of always wandering in their inner world and wasting their talents.
The earliest illustrations in China appeared in the form of printmaking. With the introduction of Buddhist culture, they used "disguised" illustrations in the scriptures to publicize their teachings. At present, China's earliest prints are recorded in historical materials, namely "Dalagni Curse" published by Tang Suzong. The title page painting of King Kong Prajna Sutra published by Tang Yizong Xian Tong in the 9th year (868) is the exact date.
In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, book illustrations developed greatly. The application scope has expanded to medical books, historical geography books, archaeological catalogue books, daily encyclopedia books and other books, and color overprint illustrations have appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can be said that the ancient illustration art developed greatly, and there were book engraving industries all over the country. Different regions have formed different styles.
What are the three basic elements of illustration design? After reading the illustrations, I know better! What are the three basic elements of illustration design? The first basic element: the orientation of the theme. The first step of illustration design is to let the illustrator grasp the theme and establish a clear theme. Suppose the object of creation is an adult with mature thinking and cognitive independence. He needs illustrations to create a situation that can resonate with him at a deeper level. This kind of illustration requires high conception and composition, profound connotation and artistic aesthetic value, which also requires the illustrator to have the ability of thinking in images, high literary literacy, insight and understanding, as well as delicate emotions and solid painting performance. Through some creative training, such as taking poetry, literary stories or even a word or a concept as the theme, the visual image language can be transformed, thus improving the image thinking and artistic expression ability. The second basic element: creative concept and aesthetic modeling performance ability. Illustrators can observe and experience things around them and discover art through their own feelings. How to improve aesthetic consciousness? On the one hand, strengthen modeling training and improve painting skills; On the other hand, we can learn from excellent illustrators, understand their thoughts and aesthetics, and learn the style creation and expression methods of illustrators. With the improvement of aesthetic consciousness, we have our own understanding and judgment on the style and style of illustration. The third basic element: use sketch to capture inspiration quickly. Sketch can record the original ideas and creativity of creation, and it is a very effective training method. Sketch is also an important means of collecting materials and sketching, which can briefly describe the basic characteristics of objects in a short time. Visual memory, such as sketching real life elements or sketching pictures, is also helpful to improve image memory ability and imagination. This concludes the introduction of the three basic elements of illustration. We will meet again in the next issue. How to design creative illustrations? I. Contents
For commercial illustration, the creativity of content is actually the least easy for people to feel creative, but if the creativity of content can be done well, it is a very good growth opportunity for designers, so what should be paid attention to when doing content creativity? When designing, you can start with ordinary content and combine your unique experience and simplicity to draw a refreshing picture.
Second, composition
There are many aspects of composition design skills, which cannot be described one by one. In composition design, we can choose narrative composition and non-narrative composition. Refers to a composition with a certain sense of story. Non-narrative composition, contrary to narrative composition, has no obvious story plot and the picture generally has no realistic background. It is more a type of composition that expresses a point of view by comparing metaphors.
Third, modeling.
Modeling creativity can be said to be an important aspect of designer's expressive force and creativity. Every designer has a different style, and the creative style is also the most recognizable.
Fourth, color.
Different themes have restrictions on the use of colors, that is, not every type of color scheme is suitable for the same theme. Designers usually create similar themes, so they usually use the same color matching. Once you receive the entrustment of different theme types, you need to change the color by combining factors such as brand.